Biological Program (1)
Kingdom of Tormia.
An unnamed village in the San Ferros region.
“hurry! Please go faster!”
A carriage was speeding down a steep mountain road at a frightening speed.
The exterior was sleek, with only mobility in mind, and there was a cart containing medical equipment hanging at the back.
The wheels of the carriage caught on a stone and bounced, and the medical staff inside pressed against the wall.
“The road is too rough! If we keep going at this speed…!”
Before the coachman could finish speaking, Seriel pulled back the curtain and came out of the guest room.
“are you okay! Please go at top speed!”
The driver gritted his teeth and swung the reins, and finally a shabby village came into view beyond the mountain road.
Since it belongs to the Kingdom of Tormia, it is not without a name, but the village is currently completely closed.
An unnamed disease reported three days ago caused the residents to mutate, and that was what Seriel was looking for.
“Im here!”
The door opened with a bang, and a man with white hair and Seriel jumped out of the water as if jumping into the water.
The World Health Organization’s medical staff followed suit and quickly began gathering medical equipment.
Tenos, the head of the molecular biology department, was a wiry-looking man with white hair.
“What about the variant?”
Soldiers in anti-bacterial suits were guarding the entrance.
“Everyone is dead and now there is only one person left. “But it’s in very bad condition.”
“Move!”
The medical officers shouted as they pushed the soldier in.
“It’s not possible! Unreasonable entry without proper epidemiological investigation…
“Ceriel! “Follow me in!”
“yes!”
Seriel, who received a bag of equipment from the medical staff, followed Tenos into the village.
“What should I do? If this continues and it becomes contagious…
the commander gave instructions.
“damn! First, block the entrance. “Any residents who escape must be killed!”
As the military loaded their bows, medical staff from the World Health Organization followed in one after another.
In the village of 300 households, corpses were piled up, and the survivors’ eyes were filled with fear.
“Help me! Please send it to me!” People stretched out their hands toward Seriel as if she had escaped from the swamp of hell.
But she didn’t even blink and went deeper into the village.
There were corpses piled up there too.
‘The range of variation is greater than expected.’
Can we really call that a person?
There were people whose arms and legs were transformed into those of insects, as well as corpses whose entire bodies were mimicked by animals.
“exaggeration! Seriel!”
She suddenly came to her senses and looked back at the cabin where she heard the manager’s voice.
“yes!”
When we went inside, we saw a man whose skin had gone from pale to transparent, tied to the bed.
“Wow! “Kaaaa!”
His eyes were unfocused, as if he had already lost his senses, but the fear remained.
“It hasn’t changed yet! “Eviscerate!” The medical staff tore off all of the man’s clothes and Seriel climbed on top of him.
“Kaaaa! “Kaaaa!”
I crushed the man’s solar plexus with both hands to stop him from struggling and quickly looked at the man’s entire body.
‘Where is it? where are you?’
The point where the parasite mutates the host’s body does not exceed a radius of 20 centimeters from the initial injection organ.
‘found!’
Seriel’s eyes widened as she discovered the injection wound on the man’s chest.
‘damn! It’s the heart!’
There was a high probability that it was a full-body mutation.
“Meth!”
The moment the medical staff handed over the scalpel, the man’s upper body shook even more violently.
“Whoa! “Save me…!”
Human language that makes one’s bones tremble.
Seriel bit her lip and mercilessly cut the man’s chest with a scalpel.
“Kwaaaah!”
As blood poured out, a red spot appeared on Seriel’s face, as if it had been cut with a brush.
She didn’t close her eyes, but fortunately there was no blood in them.
However, it has not yet been revealed how the parasite infects other individuals.
OOOOI” Seri El, who put her hand into the man’s heart, felt something different and pulled it out.
Like a lump of cancer, the soft cytoplasm was writhing roughly as if it were alive.
“extracting!”
When the medical staff threw the parasite into the metal box, the cell stems spread out like whiskers.
‘It’s almost instinct.’
The moment they checked that point, the medical staff closed the box and Seriel hurriedly took emergency measures.
“I will cast a recovery spell.”
Tenos nodded and put a lock on the box.
“please! please!”
Ceriel’s healing magic was well-known by the World Health Organization, but the only thing it healed was wounds.
The man, who had already lost all his energy to the parasite, looked up at Seriel and moved his lips.
“Teacher Sun…
“Don’t say it. Recovery is the priority now.”
“…I had a dream.”
The man had an expression of acceptance of death, and as far as Seriel knew, such a case was a unique one.
“I felt like my body was on fire, but the pain suddenly disappeared. “Are you a teacher?”
“It’s probably because the parasites were extracted. I can buy it. “Please come to your senses a little longer.”
“The light pulled me in and my eyes opened.”
The man recalled his dream.
“Good scent and comfortable feel. “These are things that a poor person like me can never feel.”
Seriel did not stop him any further.
‘This man too…
there was something in common among the mutant reports collected from all over the world.
“At that time, this thought came into my head. Oh, I am rich. “I guess I’ve been dreaming this whole time.”
Tears flowed down the man’s cheeks.
“But actually, it was a dream. Yes, I am a poor person.”
“What did you see in that dream?”
The recovery spell was still being cast, but the man’s vitality was not restored.
“Hazy sky. It could have been a glass window. “Something was looking down at me from beyond the sky.”
“What was that?”
“I don’t know. I can’t see very well. Something small and gray… Then suddenly the sky opened… and
at that moment, when I came to my senses, it was here.
“That was a dream. I was rich. No, this must be a dream. “Sir, I want to go back.”
As the man with a tearful face cried out and screamed, Seriel held his face.
“Come to your senses! The wound has already healed! “You can live!”
“no! It’s all fake! All…! “Huh!”
The man’s lungs inflated rapidly, his pupils rolled up, and he stopped breathing.
Seriel performed resuscitation, but the man’s body temperature was cooling down rapidly.
“It’s okay, Manager. stop. “Write a report.”
Seriel’s head fell down.
“Variant case B-38. After the parasite Argones was extracted, vital recovery was completed, but he died. The cause of death was…
Seriel slowly raised her face and her eyes sparkled.
“Suicide… presumed.”
Seriel gave instructions as she got down from the bed while the medical staff quickly took notes.
“Under international agreements, the bodies of mutants are collected by the World Health Organization. Proceed secretly. “This is an issue that should not be discussed yet.”
This announcement from the temple will not be until after Ficho’s funeral.
As Seriel went out the door, Tenos was lighting a cigarette outside the cabin.
“Good job.”
When I handed over the lit cigarette, Seriel took it and took a deep drag.
“…Why do they die?”
Tenos was speechless.
“Obviously the recovery was perfect. There were no injuries, and there were no abnormalities in biological functions or metabolism. But how can someone die?”
“well. “Because it’s vain?”
“Can someone just die because of nothingness?”
“You can’t say you’re going to die.”
Tenos lit his cigarette.
“Why does that happen? When you feel like there is nothing left in life. “After both good and bad memories pass, they are just signals from the brain.”
The finger holding the cigarette pointed straight ahead.
“They say we live in the present for the future, but in the end, all that remains is the past. “It is inefficient to keep that one memory in your head and live intensely.”
“I didn’t know you had such thoughts.”
Tenos shrugged his shoulders.
“I’m talking theoretically. Living reality means living the senses. But a feeling is a kind of impulse. Can you call that life? And the moment of recognition is already in the past.”
A long puff of cigarette smoke blew out.
“There are no humans anywhere in the past, present or future. “The only thing that exists in this world is emptiness.”
“That’s what I said.”
Tenos raised the corner of his mouth.
“I tried imitating Buddha, but I actually don’t know. If humans were just signals coming from outside, it would be no different from dreaming. Could it really be suicide? “Maybe he realized that there is no reality here.”
“Do you want to call it liberation? A near-death experience is a personal experience. “It can’t be scientifically proven.”
“…So you have to find out.” Tenos threw away his cigarette.
“Pichaud’s choice was right. I was fortunate to have Oh Dae-seong from Ivory Tower among my classmates. Even the temple will not be able to access confidential information even if it betrays the ivory tower. Come back. “Go and find out exactly what Pichot found out.” Of course, that was the plan.
“All right.”
“It’s too late by carriage. Use space movement. “You can quarantine at the branch and leave immediately.”
“All people participating in the Argones Project must move according to the route suggested by the top.”
“I will take responsibility. Anyway, the guidelines will be released tomorrow. “Don’t worry about this place, just take care of Creas.” This was what Seriel also wanted, so she lowered her head and cast a space movement spell.
“I’ll be back.”
A roar split the sky.
The day of Pishaw’s funeral.
Creas City Cemetery was crowded with celebrities from all walks of life from the morning.
“There are so many people.”
As I had been attending the magic school for a long time, there was quite a crowd gathered near the Alpheas Magic School sign. However, people who seemed to have no connection to Pishaw were also seen elsewhere.
Dorothy said.
“It’s definitely not just a funeral. Let’s not let our guard down and keep an eye on the situation.”
Arin asked.
“Are you saying there might be a fight?”
“Not really…
Sabina stabbed me in the side.
“Don’t do that, just talk. Don’t you know everything because you heard it from your lover? “Are we doing this to ourselves?”
Dorothy blushed at the word lover
.
“I don’t know either. Iruki didn’t say anything. “I just said it could be dangerous.”
Closer raised his finger.
“excuse me.”
The magic school’s principal, Alpheas, and vice principal, Olivia, were talking to the students.
“principal!”
As the excavation team, including Dorothy, greeted them, Alpheas smiled kindly.
“You’re here. thanks.”
“Of course you should come. But the atmosphere is a bit strange. “What’s going on?” “It’s because of Pishaw’s will. There seems to be a problem we don’t know about. “There was even a protest a little while ago.”
“yes? demonstration?”
When Dorothy turned her head, officials from another country were arguing with temple officials.
“This is unreasonable. Do you know how much the Kingdom of Miel invested in the temple?”
“Please understand. “I’ll say it again, neither the Super Monster Research Institute nor the temple has the authority to disclose the will.”
“No, what do you mean…!” The official couldn’t hold back his anger again and was about to wake up when the driver pointed to the entrance.
“Ambassador, over there.”
As if those words were a signal, hundreds of people remained silent at the same time.
“The Five Stars of the Ivory Tower.”
Sirone, the only person who had been given permission to see by Pishaw, was coming in with Amy.
